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ROBERT CAESAR CHILDERS (1838-1876) , See also: English See also: Oriental See also: scholar, son of the Rev
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See also: Charles Childers, English
See also: chaplain at See also: Nice, was See also: born in 1838
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In 186o he received an See also: appointment in the See also: civil service of See also: Ceylon, which he retained until 1864, when he was compelled to return to See also: England owing to See also: ill-See also: health
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He had studied See also: Pali during his residence in Ceylon, under Yatrramulle UnnSnse, a learned Buddhist for whom he cherished a See also: life-long respect, and he had gained an insight into the Sinhalese character and ways of thought
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In 1869 he published the first Pali text ever printed in England, and began to prepare a Pali See also: dictionary, the first See also: volume of which was published in 1872, and the second and concluding volume in 1875
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In the following See also: year it was awarded the Volney prize by the Institute of See also: France, as being the most important philological See also: work of the year
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He was a frequent contributor to the Journal of the Royal See also: Asiatic Society, in which he published the Maha-parinibbana Sutta, the Pali text giving the account of the last days of See also: Buddha's life
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In 1872 he was appointed sub-librarian at the See also: India Office, and in the following year he became the first professor of Pali and Buddhist literature at University See also: College, See also: London
.
He died in London on the 25th of See also: July 1876
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